by our College Data Analytics Team
College Factual recognizes the best colleges and universities in its annual rankings. These rankings include categories for best overall colleges, best colleges for each major, best value schools, and much more.
Moraine Valley Community College was awarded 358 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is biological & physical sciences.
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College Factual ranked MVCC as #938 out of 2,217 colleges and universities in the country on its 2024 Best Colleges list. This is an improvement over the previous year, when MVCC held the #1,219 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
MVCC is also ranked #41 out of 85 schools in Illinois.
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Returning adults and other non-traditional students may appreciate the fact that Moraine Valley Community College has an open admissions policy. This means that you'll only have to submit basic materials, which may include proof that you completed high school or an equivalent program.
The student to faculty ratio is often used to estimate how much interaction there is between professors and their students at a college or university. At Moraine Valley Community College, this ratio is 17 to 1, which is on par with the national average of 15 to 1. That's not bad at all.
In addition to the student to faculty ratio, some people look at what percentage of faculty members are full-time as a sign of how much time professors will be able to spend with their students. This is because part-time teachers may not be be on campus as much as their full-time counterparts.
The full-time faculty percentage at Moraine Valley Community College is 29%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate tells us what percentage of first-year, full-time students choose to continue on to their sophomore year at a particular school. The rate at Moraine Valley Community College is 72%, which is about average when compared to the national rate of 68%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 11,026 undergraduates at MVCC with 4,131 being full-time and 6,895 being part-time.
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of MVCC, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At MVCC, approximately 5% of students took out student loans averaging $4,523 a year. That adds up to $18,092 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at MVCC is 6.9%. Although this is lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, you'll still want to keep this in mind when taking out student loans.
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Contact details for MVCC are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 9000 W. College Parkway, Palos Hills, IL 60465-0937 |
| Phone: | 708-974-4300 |
| Website: | www.morainevalley.edu/ |
Online learning options are becoming more and more popular at American colleges and universities. Online classes are great for students who have busy schedules or for those who just want to study on their own time.
In 2020-2021, 6,410 students took at least one online class at Moraine Valley Community College. This is a decrease from the 8,552 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 6,410 | 2,992 |
| 2019-2020 | 8,552 | 7,054 |
| 2018-2019 | 2,860 | 685 |
| 2017-2018 | 2,732 | 593 |
| 2016-2017 | 2,586 | 663 |
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Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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